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Decoding Cultural Leadership
Decoding Cultural Leadership is a podcast that explores the intersection between the arts, culture and society and interrogates what it means to be a cultural leader in the 21st century.
In each episode, host Samuel Cairnduff talks with some of the most influential organisational leaders, creators, policy-makers and thought leaders, building an understanding of their approach to shifting the dial in a complex, constantly changing world.
By talking to influential leaders whose voices resonate in the community, Decoding Cultural Leadership seeks to gain a deeper perspective on how cultural organisations see their role in the community, how they make hard decisions, and how they address the needs of multiple stakeholders.
Culture and society are deeply connected. Decoding Cultural Leadership explores this complex relationship through deep conversation with our greatest cultural leaders. Join us as we decode cultural leadership.
Decoding Cultural Leadership.
Culture. Society. Conversations
Decoding Cultural Leadership
Episode 6. Aubrey Bergauer: How to Run it Like a Business
Aubrey Bergauer is a true changemaker in the world of performing arts management.
Hailed as ‘the Steve Jobs of classical music’ (Observer) and ‘the Sheryl Sandberg of the symphony’ (LA Review of Books), Aubrey Bergauer is known for her results-driven, customer-centric, data-obsessed pursuit of changing the narrative for the performing arts. Her legendary achievements as CEO of the California Symphony included doubling the size of its audience and nearly quadrupling its donor base.
In 2019, she stepped into a different role as a sought-after speaker, writer, consultant and thought leader, bringing her progressive, results-driven, customer-centric, data-obsessed pursuit of changing the narrative to performing arts organisations around the world.
She has just captured some key principles, ideas and case studies that guided her approach in her first book, ‘Run It Like a Business’ (now available on Amazon).
In this lively and wide-ranging conversation, Aubrey joins Sam to talk about her leadership journey and unique take on the burning challenge of bringing our organisations up to speed with contemporary society to be more connected and reach more audiences than ever before.
Links:
Aubrey’s new book, Run It Like a Business - available at Amazon
Her podcast, ‘The Offstage Mic’ is available on major podcast platforms
https://www.aubreybergauer.com/podcast
Aubrey’s website:
www.aubreybergauer.com
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Presenter and research: Sam Cairnduff
Creative Director: Niloofar Pashmforoosh
Presented in association with Limelight
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